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Jack Leonard

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Journalist at ProPublica. Previously at the Los Angeles Times. Interested in accountability journalism, government misconduct/corruption and Arsenal football club.

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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Senators criticize Trump administration’s demands to access health data as a condition for lifesaving aid. The move follows reporting by @propublica.org's @fastlerner.bsky.social & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/sena...
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Senators Criticize Trump Administration’s Demands to Access Health Data as a Condition for Lifesaving Aid
Citing ProPublica’s reporting, eight senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioning the administration’s approach to foreign health data. They said it could set an “alarming pre...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. @propublica.org's @sheinvestigates.bsky.social investigates how the rise in measles could signal a return of other deadly and horrific childhood diseases. www.propublica.org/article/meas...
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Corey Johnson @coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My latest story has some intrigue. FCC finally released Chairman Brendan Carr’s financial report for 2025 late Friday. The report states Paramount gave him tickets to the gala worth $12,390. But he and his wife sat in skybox seats that sold for $125,000 a piece. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount. Here is the latest impact from @propublica.org's @coreygjohnson.bsky.social's investigation. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Two physicists won the Nobel Prize for the 2012 discovery of the so-called “God particle.” Under a new rule proposed by the Trump administration, American scientists might be forced to watch similar discoveries from the sidelines. www.propublica.org/article/fede...
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How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery. By @propublica.org's @lisalsong.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/fede...
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How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
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Corey Johnson @coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Please see my latest: Brendan Carr and his wife sat in CEO David Ellison's private skybox at the Kennedy Center months after voting for Paramount's merger. Such seats sold for $125,000 a seat. Carr has accepted $63,000 in tickets from CBS or its parent since 2017 www.propublica.org/article/para...
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The latest from me and @annamaria.bsky.social on the proposed grants from the State Department to advocates for white South Africans and groups aligned with conservative and anti-immigration movements in Europe www.propublica.org/article/huma...
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Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NEW: Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe, by @annamaria.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social
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Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/07/2026
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What @propublica.org Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks. projects.propublica.org/measles-outb...
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What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks — ProPublica
The U.S. eliminated measles a quarter century ago, but to keep its “measles-free” designation, officials will have to make a strong case that measles is not continuously spreading within its borders. ...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
HUGE NEWS: ProPublica is launching a new investigative reporting hub in California, our sixth regional unit. Read more 👇
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ProPublica to Launch Investigative Reporting Hub in California
The new team will bring accountability journalism to the nation’s largest state as part of a broader expansion.
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I recently learned someone is posing as me, trying to work people for info. So I did some reporting of my own on what appears to be the latest evolution of online deception... www.propublica.org/article/impe...
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Who’s Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?
A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real Robert did some reporting o...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish: Two Stanford researchers modeled how many people polio, diphtheria, rubella and measles would kill or disable if the U.S. lost the vaccines that prevent them. @propublica.org illustrated the results. projects.propublica.org/childhood-va...
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is horrifying. How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues, by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/03/2026
As ProPublica journalists, we share a common purpose with inspectors general: to hold our government accountable by identifying waste, fraud and abuse. If you work in or have recently left the office of an inspector general, we want to hear from you.
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An Open Letter to the Inspectors General Community
If you work in or have recently left the office of a federal inspector general, we need your insights to do important journalism.
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
INVESTIGATION: How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues. @propublica.org's @sheinvestigates.bsky.social shows how long-forgotten plagues have roared back when access to vaccines or trust in them faltered. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation. The latest from @propublica.org's @coreygjohnson.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/todd...
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Six Senators Accuse Deputy Attorney General of “Glaring” Crypto Conflict, Cite ProPublica Investigation
The senators presented a letter demanding that top DOJ official Todd Blanche clarify the legality of his actions, pointing to ProPublica reporting that found he owned at least $159,000 in related asse...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Complaint Accuses Trump’s Criminal Attorney of “Blatant” Crypto Conflict in His Role at DOJ. By @propublica.org's @coreygjohnson.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/todd...
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Complaint Accuses Trump’s Criminal Attorney of “Blatant” Crypto Conflict in His Role at DOJ
A watchdog group is seeking an inspector general investigation into Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after ProPublica reported that he had ordered changes to crypto prosecutions while owning more ...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With. By @propublica.org's @lisalsong.bsky.social @fastlerner.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules www.propublica.org/article/air-... By @propublica.org's @lisalsong.bsky.social
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Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules
In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.
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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/12/2025
NEW: Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them. They finally got their wish.
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Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Threshold for Safe Formaldehyde Exposure
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In response to a @propublica.org story this week, Democratic senators have launched an inquiry into a White House official who intervened on behalf of Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro. www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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Senators Launch Inquiry After a White House Official Intervened on Behalf of Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
In letters to the White House and DHS, Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Gary Peters called the intervention a “brazen interference with a federal investigation.”
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
CLIMATE CHANGE: We tried to figure out how many people are expected to die as a result of Trump’s anti-green agenda: As many as 1.3 million. The latest from @propublica.org's @fastlerner.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
EXCLUSIVE: The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation. Read and share the latest from @propublica.org. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social, Avi Asher-Shapiro & @amierjeski.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"At one steel industry plant near Pittsburgh, a potent carcinogen was found at levels more than 30 times higher than estimated." If you read to the end you'll find an asthmatic cat photo 😭 My latest, 📸 by Annie Flanagan. Shocking pics that look like pre-EPA days www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
More than 5 million people face an increased cancer risk because they live near a type of industrial plant that would have been subject to rules put forward by the Biden. The Trump administration is rolling them back By the inimitable @lisalsong.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. www.propublica.org/article/epa-... @lisalsong.bsky.social reveals how big polluters are allowed to estimate their emissions using methods even the EPA conceded are often unreliable.
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Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2025
2/ As the story also makes clear, having two such mortgages is not on its own evidence of wrongdoing. But it is a standard the Trump administration has been using to go after its political foes. Read our full story:
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2025
1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Post on X from EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. The text says: "ProPublica's headline is the definition of fake news. I have NEVER claimed more than one primary residence! In 2007, I acquired a primary residence in NY upon leaving active duty. That was my primary residence for the next 17.5 years. My primary residence then changed to DC this past year when I become EPA Administrator. I completed the process by the book, notifying my mortgage companies, insurance company, and local government that my primary residence was changing. These fake news hacks knew this BEFORE posting their bogus claim, but they just couldn't help themselves." Below the post text is a screenshot of a ProPublica post that reads: "Trump has targeted political foes for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president's Cabinet members have done the same thing."
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Once an ardent environmentalist who took on big polluters, RFK Jr. has been publicly silent on Trump dismantling efforts to combat climate change, pollution and toxic chemicals, including some linked to autism. By @propublica.org's @fastlerner.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations. By @propublica.org's @lisalsong.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations
U.S. delegates have objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science and technology, global health, toxic pollution and chemical wast...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People. By @propublica.org's @coreygjohnson.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive gro...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
RFK Jr. Wants to Change a Program That Stopped Vaccine Makers From Leaving the U.S. Market. They Could Flee Again. www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Wants to Overhaul a Vital System That Supports Childhood Immunization
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
NEW: RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic. By @propublica.org's @sheinvestigates.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...
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RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program That Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program stabilizes the nation’s childhood immunization system while paying those harmed by rare side effects. If the program topples, it could threaten access to vaccin...
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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New: The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
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Robert Faturechi @robert-faturechi.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Records show Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 and $5 million worth of Trump Media shares on April 2. That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
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U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi sold more than $1 million worth of Trump Media stock the day Trump announced bruising new tariffs on "Liberation Day." @propublica.org's @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @bxroberts.org have the exclusive story. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
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U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction. www.propublica.org/article/trum... 🧵
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Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Exclusive: Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show. By @propublica.org's @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
A gun owners group has called for a federal inquiry Into the firearms industry’s secret sharing of customer data with political operatives. @propublica.org's @coreygjohnson.bsky.social revealed details about the industry's program last year www.propublica.org/article/gun-...
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Gun Owners Group Calls for Federal Inquiry Into Firearms Industry’s Secret Sharing of Customer Data
Citing a ProPublica investigation, Gun Owners for Safety called the secret program that spanned nearly two decades “underhanded.” “Gun owners’ privacy is not a partisan or ideological issue,” a member...
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Zeldin and Trump have publicly called out environmental activists by name. On social media, people have responded to their allegations with calls to imprison the people he has targeted, charge them with treason and even execute them www.propublica.org/article/eart...
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Earthjustice President Describes a “Fundamentally Different” Era of Hostility Toward Environmentalists
Abigail Dillen sees the increase of lawsuits targeting green groups as just one of the growing threats to environmental advocacy organizations — and the people who staff them.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Trump administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said. @robert-faturechi.bsky.social
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Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could ju...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could ju...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
NEW: The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations. The agency’s explanation alarms some public health experts and shows a shift in the CDC’s messaging about vaccines. @propublica.org's @sheinvestigates.bsky.social breaks the news www.propublica.org/article/meas...
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The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
TCE Is linked to heart defects in babies, cancer and Parkinson’s. Now a ban on the chemical is under threat as the Trump EPA seeks to delay the ban and Republicans in Congress want to repeal it. By @propublica.org's @fastlerner.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/tce-... .
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TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.
The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took office...
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Jack Leonard @jack-leonard.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's NIH ends funding to study the health effects of climate change. The move is "catastrophic," one climate health expert told @propublica.org's @anniewaldman.bsky.social and @fastlerner.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/nih-...
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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